PuTTY wish many-sessions

summary: Make life easier for people with lots of saved sessionsclass: wish: This is a request for an enhancement.difficulty: tricky: Needs many tuits.priority: medium: This should be fixed one day.

PuTTY's saved sessions list box is fine for people with only a few
saved sessions, but some people (such as sysadmins) might plausibly
have a much larger number of them and might find the list box
unwieldy.

One solution to this is to invent a means of categorising saved
sessions, perhaps by introducing a hierarchical directory structure
within the saved-sessions list. (Some list entries would be
directories, which you could click on to go down a level; in any
non-root directory there would be a `back up a level' item you could
click on to go back up.)

A smaller and simpler alternative would be simply to allow the PuTTY
config box to be resized - and grow the saved sessions list box as
the window grows. We've been deliberately keeping the config box
small for the benefit of people with 640x480 screens, but if a
particular user were to want to expand their own config box there'd
be no reason to prevent them. For this to be really useful I suppose
PuTTY would have to remember the size of its config box...

Another possibility would be to
sort the sessions based on most
recent access time. I'm not sure how users would cope with their
sessions' being shuffled all the time, though.

It's not impossible that we might want to do all of these things,
or something else entirely. Some design is required.

There are various third-party forks and tools which try to address
this problem on our Links page.